''Mo Beauty'' is the debut album by

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (sometimes abbreviated to CYHSY) is the musical project of American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Alec Ounsworth, active since the early 2000s in and out of Philadelphia. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have re ...

frontman

Alec Ounsworth Alec Ounsworth (born December 1, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and frontman of indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. He is also a member of The Pelican Picnic and Flashy Python. His first solo album, '' Mo Beauty'' was ...

. It was released October 20, 2009, on

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. In August 2009, Ounsworth released Skin and Bones as Flashy Python. The title is the name of shop in the

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section of New Orleans, a photograph of which is on the album cover.

Track listing

#"Modern Girl (...With Scissors)" #"Bones in the Grave" #"Holy, Holy, Holy Moses (Song for New Orleans)" #"That Is Not My Home (After Bruegel)" #"Idiots in the Rain" #"South Philadelphia (Drug Days)" #"What Fun." #"Me and You, Watson" #"Obscene Queen Bee #2" #"When You've No Eyes" #"Dr. So and So" ( iTunes only Bonus Track) #"Big Microscope" ( iTunes only Bonus Track) #"Dim Wit Road" ( iTunes only Bonus Track)

Personnel

- Vocals,

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Stanton Moore Stanton Moore (born July 9, 1972) is an American funk, jazz, and rock drummer from New Orleans. Most widely known as a founding member of Galactic, Moore has also pursued a solo recording career (beginning with his 1998 debut ''All Kooked Out! ...

–

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* Robert Walter – Keyboards,

B3 Organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generate ...

*Matt Sutton – Baritone and Pedal Steel Guitars *

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- Producer * Mark Mullins,

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, Washboard Chaz,

Shannon Powell Shannon Powell (born April 8, 1962) is an American jazz and ragtime drummer. He has toured internationally and played with Ellis Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr., Danny Barker, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra ...

, John Boute,

Al "Carnival Time" Johnson Al "Carnival Time" Johnson (born June 20, 1939, in New Orleans, LouisianaClassic Songs of Louisiana "Carnival Time", OffBeat Magazine, February 2007) is an American singer and piano player best known for the Mardi Gras song " Carnival Time". Hi ...

, and Meschiya Lake. - Various Instrumentation

References

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